William Carlos Williams was a doctor by trade, which accounts for why many of his poems, with the quite notable exception of the book-length Patterson, are short -- he purportedly scribbled them on prescription pads between patients. The lack of both time and space meant they were simply short and imagistic. His most famous poem, "The Red Wheelbarrow," reflects how one rural patient is forced to depend on technologysuch as the wheelbarrow or his very livelihood. "This Is Just To Say" was supposedly written on a post-it note and left on the refrigerator for his wife in the morning.
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